On the controllable soft-templating approach to mesoporous silicates

Y Wan, N Zhao - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Technical advances in various fields, such as adsorption, separation, catalysis, drug
delivery, sensors, photonics, and nanodevices, require the development of ordered porous …

Nanoarchitectonics for mesoporous materials

K Ariga, A Vinu, Y Yamauchi, Q Ji… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Although mesoporous materials have well-defined pore structures, these fine materials can
surprisingly be produced by employing a set of conventional and simple procedures such as …

Free-standing mesoporous silica films with tunable chiral nematic structures

KE Shopsowitz, H Qi, WY Hamad, MJ MacLachlan - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Chirality at the molecular level is found in diverse biological structures, such as
polysaccharides, proteins and DNA, and is responsible for many of their unique properties …

Nanoparticles in cellular drug delivery

AH Faraji, P Wipf - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
This review highlights the properties of nanoparticles used in targeted drug delivery,
including delivery to cells as well as organelle targets, some of the known pharmacokinetic …

Templated Nanocrystal-Based Porous TiO2 Films for Next-Generation Electrochemical Capacitors

T Brezesinski, J Wang, J Polleux, B Dunn… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The advantages in using nanoscale materials for electrochemical energy storage are
generally attributed to short diffusion path lengths for both electronic and lithium ion …

Zintl ions, cage compounds, and intermetalloid clusters of group 14 and group 15 elements

S Scharfe, F Kraus, S Stegmaier… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For a long time, Zintl ions of Group 14 and 15 elements were considered to be remarkable
species domiciled in solid‐state chemistry that have unexpected stoichiometries and …

Bottom-up synthesis of high surface area mesoporous crystalline silicon and evaluation of its hydrogen evolution performance

F Dai, J Zai, R Yi, ML Gordin, H Sohn, S Chen… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
As an important material for many practical and research applications, porous silicon has
attracted interest for decades. Conventional preparations suffer from high mass loss …

Design, synthesis, and properties of inorganic and hybrid thin films having periodically organized nanoporosity

C Sanchez, C Boissiere, D Grosso, C Laberty… - Chemistry of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
This review presents an extensive discussion on the major advances in the field of
periodically organized mesoporous thin films (POMTFs) obtained via surfactant templated …

Colloidal nanocrystals with inorganic halide, pseudohalide, and halometallate ligands

H Zhang, J Jang, W Liu, DV Talapin - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
We investigate simple halides and pseudohalides as an important class of inorganic ligands
for nanocrystals (NCs) in solution phase ligand exchange. These short, robust, and easy to …

Mesoporous titania: From synthesis to application

R Zhang, AA Elzatahry, SS Al-Deyab, D Zhao - Nano Today, 2012 - Elsevier
Titania is one kind of important materials, which has been extensively investigated because
of its unique electronic and optical properties. A large number of efforts have been made to …